I kind of like the idea, but I think your are really out of the way with the design, there is still a LOT of work to do. Everything feels like a website from some years ago, it looks really...flat it's say. There are too many shades of blue and they are used without an apparent reason. The gradients are wrongly used, a light blue fading to white under a white text is not a good idea. A lot of elements have unreasonable inconsistent size, like the search box, is too small.

After this quite harsh review, I suppose you are not having access to a designer. That's fine but I strongly suggest to at least have a look to the designs you can find on themeforest.net, most are quite cheap(20$) and will give a whole new feeling to the website.

I know the design might sound as a secondary thing to a developer but I'm afraid that without a decent one the media will not even take you in account, which is a real shame because the idea is really nice.

I second this comment about design. Looks very outdated. Why don't you use bootstrap or zurb foundation to get it giong ?

I agree that Zurb might be an idea, but I would not use Bootstrap, while it's a great product it is not to create ultimated websites but, as the name suggest, jsut to hack something together quickly, it should be avoided for final products.

- What's good

While I don't know much about what you're talking about, I quickly understood what's the purpose of this website

- What should be your first priority

Your goal is to have the highest number of people signing-up. Focus on that. Reduce the clutter. Improve your signal to noise ratio. Have a look at some of Edward Tufte principles (in his own words "Make all visual distinctions as subtle as possible, but still clear and effective.")

- What's wrong but can be fixed

Well as almost everyone said, it's not a design up to our standards in 2012. But this should not be a problem. It seems that you're usign Drupal. I'm quite sure there's a Drupal Bootstrap module. Just moving your design to Bootstrap will be a huge improvement. You'll be free to fine-tune the design later.

Wow! A big thank you to everyone for all the provided feedback. Taking the various reviews into consideration, I see that the design most definitely needs to be enhanced. Will be looking at revamping the site design to best gain a more professional look. Our goal is definitely to have the highest number of people signing-up, as such we'll also be focusing on reducing the clutter.

Thanks duiker101, Tangue, codegeek and Y234.

Looking forward to receiving more feedback and critique from the HN community. Please keep it coming.

I also agree with the above comments that more could be done regarding the design. The navigation is great and I kind of understood the message, but the overall design is ....an eye sore to say the least